Mars is supposed to be dead ... <br>a fact Lt. Shaila Jain of the Joint Space Command is beginning to doubt in a bad way.<br><br>Freak quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll - seemingly of their own volition - carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.<br><br>Lt. Thomas Weatherby of His Majesty's Royal Navy is an honest 18th-century man of modest beginnings, doing his part for King and Country aboard the HMS Daedalus, a frigate sailing the high seas between continents ... and the immense Void between the Known Worlds. Across the Solar System and among its colonies - rife with plunder and alien slave trade - through dire battles fraught with strange alchemy, nothing much can shake his resolve. But events are transpiring to change all that.<br><br>With the aid of his fierce captain, a drug-addled alchemist, and a servant girl with a remarkable past, Weatherby must track a great and powerful mystic, who has embarked upon a sinister quest to upset the balance of the planets - the consequences of which may reach far beyond the Solar System, threatening the very fabric of space itself.<br><br>Set sail among the stars with this uncanny tale, where adventure awaits, and dimensions collide!
